33 Our people are mixing with the natives,
educating, teaching. The Goddens on the other hand, are already up to
their old tricks, raiding the natives all around them, taking slaves,
castrating the men and breeding the women themselves. They're trying to
make a pure breeding stock
to populate the world.
34 Their Leader is called Noah, and he's doing quite a job! But he'll
fail ….there's just too few of them, and too many natives. Eventually
their blood lines will be absorbed and they'll return to a primitive
state.
35 It will be thousands of years, maybe hundreds of thousands, before
bodies will begin to appear that we can inhabit without depleting much
of our energy to take on the native form.
36 It is going to be a long hard struggle. We made a tragic mistake,
North, allowing The Goddens here. We should have known the natives
would be too much of a temptation for them, that they could not resist
enslaving them. Now there must be much suffering and pain to undo that
we have done."
37 "What can we do?" North asked.
38 "Eventually," answered The Voice, "we will have to return this world
to those it belongs to, and take our people back to the stars. Of
course by the time that comes, I'm sure we will have allies among the
native peoples, and hold some colonies here with their consent, but
eventually we will make our homes on the uninhabited worlds of this
system.
39 But now there's much to do. We must interfere with The Goddens'
plans as much as we can, build our own free societies to oppose the
slave systems that they will set up. I think we will have plenty to
occupy our interests .... plenty, indeed!"